Tuesday, September 18, 2007

FREE Skull Font!

Posted by
Noah

Thanks to the awesome programming work by Mark Conahan the Skullphabet #1 I designed has been turned into a functional font! Download your FREE copy here (option-click for Mac* or right-click for PC and select Download or Save As):

FYI the font is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licensed. Keep in mind that the font is based on Futura, so there is no guarantee that using it for commercial projects is absolutely legal. Also please do not try to sell it! Thanks.

Ok, my attempt at a link didn't work. Just go to the control panel and click fonts. copy and paste the file into the fonts folder and it should be available when you use just about any program. In fact i am using it now with firefox but when the comment is posted it reverts back to the default text for the website. :-(

FYI for your font developer: the font contains 3 tables (LTSH, hdmx and VDMX) that are all calculated incorrectly. They just need to be re-cached, which your font software should be able to take care of. Also, this font probably does not need these tables, and as they are not required for TT or OT, you could jsut eliminate them.

You probably won't see a problem from this issue, but some PC Word uses could get odd spacing issues in rare cases.

Hey Jason, Thanks for the heads-up. So far no one has mentioned any problems, but I asked Mark (who did the programming) to fix the things you mentioned. He was able to get rid of the last 2 tables, but he was a loss on the LTSH. I've gone ahead and replaced the online files with the new ones he made, but if you feel like fixing the last one feel free to do so and send it along!

Hej there- this is skull-bulous!Ihave been taking my father's study skull with me everywhere during the years (whenever I movedm that is- not in my purse...it's a REAL skull I named "Egon")LOVE it- I'll find a way to figure out how to download the font useably somehow..I would like to link your page to mine -can you tell me how that would work?www.nmhfi.thevillage.com

This is so cool! It took a few tries to download but I figured it out! You have to open your program files to download it in your font file - maybe you should explain how to do it because if you just do a staight download you can't use it. I love skulls and skeletons - this is so awesome! THANKS!

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